Robotic Matter Lab

The SQE Inspire Program thanks Mrs. Kimberly Querrey & Mr. John & Mrs. Rita Canning for their generous support for young students to explore STEM careers. This year we hosted field trips, a Women’s Shadow Day, & the Canning Summer Scholar Workshop! Happy Holidays! @TrubyLab

Professor Ryan Truby, and students Alexander Kane and Eric Yang received a DARPA Director’s Fellowship, supporting development of next-generation soft, flexible batteries through Truby’s Robotic Matter Lab. spr.ly/6011COWmb

A research team with Professors Wei Chen and Ryan Truby harnessed physics, computation, and 3D printing to autonomously produce materials that change shape on demand. spr.ly/6016APlO0

Professor Ryan Truby (@TrubyLab) developed a soft artificial muscle, paving the way for untethered animal- and human-scale robots. The new actuators provide the performance and mechanical properties required for building robotic musculoskeletal systems. spr.ly/6018fr932

Professor Ryan Truby reimagined a soft materials course by integrating cutting-edge 3D printing techniques, providing students with hands-on experience in additive manufacturing. spr.ly/6011FvzZD

Happy holidays from the RML :)

The latest work from Taekyoung & Pranav @TrubyLab is out at @AdvSciNews! Taekyoung led the development of a flexible, electrically-driven soft actuator! Motorizing soft architected materials like these are enabling a new path for artificial muscle design. bit.ly/4cGzPHN

A team with Northwestern Engineering students took the highest honor at NASA’s 2024 annual BIG Idea Challenge forum, winning the prestigious Artemis Award. Congrats! spr.ly/6019sqQAd

It was so much fun meeting these students and sharing our work with them. A huge thank you to all @TrubyLab members for their thoughtful demos, & Maddie Briggs, @NehaPKamat, @simonaf1ne and @SPInLabNU for partnering with us to show off awesome work from our NU MRSEC!

The SQE Inspire Program thanks Dr. Ryan Truby @rltruby & his Robotic Matter Lab members for helping host students from Trinity High School for an exciting day meeting the scientists & seeing first hand the amazing robotic & material science research that they are doing! @TrubyLab

Our new Instagram account just launched! Come see what we baked for coffee hour! @TrubyLab on Instagram instagram.com/trubylab/profi…

If you're at #AIChE2024, swing by Poster 387 and meet Dr. EunBi Oh @EunBiOh3 at TODAY's #FacultyCandidate Poster Session! EunBi joined @TrubyLab as the first member of our team and laid the foundation of our group's incredible community. She is SO ready to launch her own lab!

Congratulations to Northwestern Engineering's Ian McCue and @rltruby, who both received two-year, $500,000 @DARPA Young Faculty Awards. The program aims to identify and engage standout researchers in junior faculty positions. bit.ly/46NVESC

🎉Excited to announce my latest perspective in collaboration with @rltruby and @todd_murphey! Here we provide a task-first roadmap toward materializing autonomy in soft robots as small as paramecia and as large as elephant trunks, paying particular attention to scale-dependence.

[Photos from @acspmse /@POLY_ACS Award Ceremony] Future Faculty Award Winners. Hearty congratulations! Hope you all had a great time at #ACSFall2023. All the very best to your next adventures. @AmerChemSociety #facultychemjobs

Off to San Francisco for #ACSFall2023! I will be presenting at the Future Faculty Symposium this Sunday. Thrilled to share my work from both the Mirkin group and the Robotic Matter lab. Excited and eager to hear insights and feedback from all! #acspmse @TrubyLab @MirkinGroupNU

Our first review is now OPEN ACCESS at @AnnualReviews Material Research! We look at progress in electrically controllable soft actuators for building computationally and physically intelligent machines. Check it out: bit.ly/3DFftPe

Our first trip/retreat together is in the books!

Dr. @EunBiOh3 is presenting our lab's VERY FIRST conference presentation tomorrow #ACSSpring2023!!! Check out her talk (3825653) on 3D printed ionogel composites in the Materials and Processing Challenges in Additive Manufacturing of Structural Composites Symposium @acspmse.

Congratulations to Professors Sam Kriegman and Ryan Truby on winning a 2022 Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience Seed Grant for their project titled "Sustainable Design and Fabrication of Intelligent Robots." @CesrNu @Kriegmerica @rltruby bit.ly/3lcGC67